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ESA Land Cover

ESA land cover class data product. Categories used are cropland (rainfed, irrigated, mosaic), forest, grassland, shrubland, sparse vegetation, wetland, urband, bare areas, water bodies, and snow ice. UN Land Cover Classification System (LCCS) categories were grouped according to their IPCC classes, except for agriculture which was broken into 3 different types of cropland. The original land cover class names are modified in export file for readability and ease of use. The full name of each class can be found from land cover map user guide: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-land-cover. Version 2.0.7cds provides the LC maps for the years 1992-2015 and version 2.1.1 for the years after 2016 (both versions are produced with the same processing chain).

Details

Type raster
Global coverage Yes
Datetime 1992-01-01 – 2022-01-01
Temporal type year
Tags esa, landcover, environment
Variable land cover class
License Not recorded — see the source link

Resources

Name Label Date
esa_landcover_1992 1992 1992-01-01
esa_landcover_1993 1993 1993-01-01
esa_landcover_1994 1994 1994-01-01
esa_landcover_1995 1995 1995-01-01
esa_landcover_1996 1996 1996-01-01
esa_landcover_1997 1997 1997-01-01
esa_landcover_1998 1998 1998-01-01
esa_landcover_1999 1999 1999-01-01
esa_landcover_2000 2000 2000-01-01
esa_landcover_2001 2001 2001-01-01
esa_landcover_2002 2002 2002-01-01
esa_landcover_2003 2003 2003-01-01
esa_landcover_2004 2004 2004-01-01
esa_landcover_2005 2005 2005-01-01
esa_landcover_2006 2006 2006-01-01
esa_landcover_2007 2007 2007-01-01
esa_landcover_2008 2008 2008-01-01
esa_landcover_2009 2009 2009-01-01
esa_landcover_2010 2010 2010-01-01
esa_landcover_2011 2011 2011-01-01
esa_landcover_2012 2012 2012-01-01
esa_landcover_2013 2013 2013-01-01
esa_landcover_2014 2014 2014-01-01
esa_landcover_2015 2015 2015-01-01
esa_landcover_2016 2016 2016-01-01
esa_landcover_2017 2017 2017-01-01
esa_landcover_2018 2018 2018-01-01
esa_landcover_2019 2019 2019-01-01
esa_landcover_2020 2020 2020-01-01
esa_landcover_2021 2021 2021-01-01
esa_landcover_2022 2022 2022-01-01

Value Mappings

Value Label
0 no_data
10 rainfed_cropland
20 irrigated_cropland
30 mosaic_cropland
50 forest
110 grassland
120 shrubland
140 sparse_vegetation
180 wetland
190 urban
200 bare_areas
210 water_bodies
220 snow_ice

Citation

Defourny, P. (2017): ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (Land_Cover_cci): Land Cover Maps, v2.0.7. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 7/2017